Soulful storytelling
Hi and thanks for being here. I’m Hannah, a passionate and highly accomplished freelance features writer, journalist, sub-editor, digital content specialist and photographer whose beats include travel, traditions and folklore, food, lifestyle, culture and nature.
My home is the UK, but my words know no borders.
My travel writing career began, ironically, during the pandemic. Furloughed from my jobs in theatre, I started taking online courses and pitching my ideas to editors. After landing my first byline in October 2020, I was soon seeing my work on supermarket shelves.
Covering versatile themes like travel (experiential, regenerative, solo, dog-friendly), positive-impact tourism, ancient traditions and folklore, history and heritage, food, lifestyle, culture, conservation and crafts, I specialise in digital media and publishing for a global audience (though I flirt with print too).
I have contributed to the likes of FOOD by National Geographic Traveller, Adventure.com, TIME, Breathe and The Independent, and was shortlisted for 'National Consumer Feature of the Year' in the Travel Media Awards 2023. I recently returned to freelancing part-time as a features writer, journalist, content specialist and sub-editor following two years as Senior Features Writer at loveEXPLORING.
There, I produced 80-plus galleries, articles and destination guides spanning a range of diverse subjects and topics, from the Cold War and the Grand Tour to train travel, hotels, World Heritage Sites and women's history.
My work reached millions of international readers and was translated into several languages.
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How did I get here?
Staffordshire-born and Northants-based, I also lived in Birmingham and London for a number of years. From poetry as a kid to playscripts as a postgrad, writing has always been the thread tying my creative life together.
My earliest memories of adventure are childhood summers in Somerset and wet weekends in Wales, which I loved in their own right — and still do. But they only did so much to quench the aching wanderlust I inherited from my grandmother. Deeply envious of my well-travelled school friends and their holidays to places I had only ever seen on maps or the TV, my fascination with far-off lands led me to memorising the capital cities and flags of the world alongside collecting postcards, until the time came that I could whisk myself away to more distant climes.
Today, besides travelling extensively in my homeland, I have sampled artisan wine in the foothills of Mount Etna; swam in the salty lagoons of northern Cyprus; seen the sunrise from a hot-air balloon above the Emirati desert; toured the madrasas and museums of Marrakech; fed rescued wolfdogs in Alberta; road-tripped across Malta, Croatia and Iceland; and journeyed solo to Copenhagen, Lundy Island, Ireland’s most northerly point, and by train from London to Budapest.
A few of my favourite things beyond travel are my dog Luna, my nieces, cooking, reading, singing and Yorkshire puddings. I also love interior design and making my home a shrine to the places I’ve been.
